4 results for tag: Clean Lakes Program
Happy Earth Day from NALMS!
NALMS 314 Workgroup Updates
In the spring issue of LakeLine Magazine, released just this morning in time for Earth Day, the NALMS 314 Workgroup provided a wonderful summary of what they have been up to the past six months and where we're headed in the future. Please see below for this update:
NALMS continues to take on a mission of continued protection of our lakes and reservoirs with the 314 working group (WG). The Clean Lakes Program was established in 1972 as section 314 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, to provide financial and technical assistance to states in restoring publicly owned lakes.
The program has funded a total of ...
Coming Soon: Clean Lakes Program Advocacy Campaign
The North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) is excited to share with you some information about an advocacy campaign for restoring funding to, and enhancing, Section 314 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).
The North American Lakes Management Society (NALMS) 314 Working Group has been developing the elements of an advocacy campaign related to restoring funding to Section 314 of the CWA, to once again allow for diagnostic-feasibility studies to be conducted on lakes and ponds across the country. Another component of the campaign is to enhance Section 314 by including funding for preservation and protection efforts for high quality waters.
The ...
NALMS Internship Opportunities
NALMS is accepting applications for three internship opportunities:
NALMS JEDI Internship
The intern will work with the NALMS Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee to support the process of completing a 5-year plan for NALMS to use in incorporating JEDI into all facets of the organization. To achieve this goal the intern will focus their efforts in these areas:
Internal Assessment
Outreach
Internal Planning and Strategy
Symposium Planning
The intern will take the lead on assessing previously collected information, and possible collection of further data, to help define this plan. The intern will have an integral ...
NALMS Takes a Stand for Clean Lakes Programming & Lake Shoreland Protection
By Jessica Converse, NALMS Policy Intern; NALMS 314 Working Group
Lake conditions change slowly over time, but their transformations are not to be minimized. These inland bodies of water are sentinels of climate change impacts over broader catchment scales. Additionally, diminished lake quality exacerbates the release of greenhouse gases (Beaulieu et al., 2019) and encourages harmful cyanobacteria growth (Paerl, 2017), both of which impact public health. Without concerted effort to protect and restore water quality as well as reimagine investment into lake communities, we further jeopardize our most precious resource: fresh water. Unimpaired ...